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How To Install Linux Dash on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Linux Dash on Ubuntu 14.04

Linux Dash is an open-source dashboard to monitor Linux servers. It prides itself on its simplicity and ease of use. It can be very handy to have a high-level dashboard for a server instance. With a wide array of modules for server statistics, it also serves as a great visual debugging tool.

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How To Troubleshoot Common ELK Stack Issues — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Troubleshoot Common ELK Stack Issues

This tutorial is an ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) troubleshooting guide. It is structured as a series of common issues, and potential solutions to these issues, along with steps to help you verify that the various components of your ELK stack are functioning properly.

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How To View and Configure Linux Logs on Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To View and Configure Linux Logs on Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS

Linux and the applications that run on it can generate all different types of messages, which are recorded in various log files. Linux uses a set of configuration files, directories, programs, commands and daemons to create, store and recycle these log messages. Knowing where the system keeps its log files and how to make use of related commands can therefore help save valuable time during troubleshooting.

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How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK Stack) on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK Stack) on Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elasticsearch ELK Stack on Ubuntu 14.04—that is, Elasticsearch 2.2.x, Logstash 2.2.x, and Kibana 4.4.x. We will also show you how to configure it to gather and visualize the syslogs of your systems in a centralized location, using Filebeat 1.0.x. Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. Kibana 4 is a web interface that can be used to search and view the logs that Logstash has indexed.

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How To Install Graylog 1.x on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Graylog 1.x on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will cover how to install Graylog v1.3.x (sometimes referred to as Graylog2) on CentOS 7, and configure it to gather the syslogs of your systems in a centralized location. Graylog is a powerful log management and analysis tool that has many use cases, from monitoring SSH logins and unusual activity to debugging applications. It is based on Elasticsearch, Java, and MongoDB.

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Adding Logstash Filters To Improve Centralized Logging (Logstash Forwarder) — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Adding Logstash Filters To Improve Centralized Logging (Logstash Forwarder)

Logstash is a powerful tool for centralizing and analyzing logs, which can help to provide and overview of your environment, and to identify issues with your servers. One way to increase the effectiveness of your Logstash setup is to collect important application logs and structure the log data by employing filters, so the data can be readily analyzed and query-able. We will build our filters around “grok” patterns, that will parse the data in the logs into useful bits of information.

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